Danny Cardenas
Danny Cardenas
A native of Northern California, I am an art educator and an artist.
Throughout my academic years I studied several forms of art, but have found myself drawn to Painting and Photography. Although you will see me gravitate to these two mediums, I am always trying to find other means of communication, experimenting with sculpture, installation and video. There are many aspects to my subject matter, identity, the human body, land, mental health, inner peace, forgotten spaces.
Current projects are a new series of my lucha libre paintings I began after over a decade long hiatus exploring the Latinx identity in today’s society. A family history of my grandparent’s generation. And a video series teaching youth about the history of art and exploring contemporary practices.
Website: dannycardenasphoto.com
Location: 16th & S Streets
About my traffic utility box design:
“Anxiety, Self-Sacrifice, Faith, Salvation (or How to Survive a Pandemic)”
The Pandemic in 2020 changed everyone’s life in one way or another, many of us experiencing loss and isolation. Loss of loved ones, loss of our way of living and even loss of mundane activities we take for granted. The panels each represented one of many emotions I dealt with during the initial shut down. They are represented though both the lucha libre masks I possess in my collection and the individuals I had wearing them. In many ways the people in these paintings are not just representatives of my own emotions but the emotions experienced by many.